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I've noticed it seems windows aren't allowed to foreground themselves/each other anymore, which seems reasonable (anti click jacking?), but this includes VS not being able to foreground my diff tool when I diff something, and Outlook not being able to foreground itself when I double click the new mail envelope in the notification area.

I also enjoy going to grab a maximised window by its title bar and somehow grabbing the window behind it.

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Yeah, windows is pretty aggressive with the focus stealing prevention (I believe GNOME on Linux is also working on something similar, hopefully with a better implementation).

It seems to struggle with differentiating between what's a user initiated focus-steal and what's automated/originating from the app without user action.

I'll take that over what existed before, which was any app could just open a window and give itself focus at any time.

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